Ander ferdinand girard



A. HBRBBLIN. KNEE PROTECTOR.'

(No Model.)

No. 588,907. Patented Aug. 24, 1897.

FIG- l- FILE- @mi/kwam@ s nomas PETERS ce., Pncrumu.. wAsNmGToN u UNITFD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED vHERBELIN, OF VVAOO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALEX- ANDER FERDINAND GIRARD, OF SAME PLACE.

KN EE-PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 588,907, dated August 24, 1897. Application filed January 22, 1897. Serial No. 620,256. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.: which is made to cover only the leg of the Be it known that I, ALFRED HERBELIN, a wearer, and which is provided with an eXtencitizen of the United States, residing at Vaco, sion a at its upper end in front, through which in the county of McLennan and State of Texas, extension passes a belt B, adapted toencircle 55 5 have invented certain new and useful Imthe waist of the wearer, and thus support the provements in Leg-Protectors and I do hereprotector. The body of this protector A may by declare the following to be a full, clear, and be made of any sort of woven or spun cloth, exact description of the invention, such as oil-canvas, or rubber cloth,l or leather, and will enable others skilled in the art to which it may or may not be Waterproof. 6o Io appertains to make and use the same. Upon the front of the knee portion of this My invention relates to improvements in protector I attach a reinforcement C, carrygarment-protectors, and has for its object to ing a pad D. This reinforcement C may be provide suitable leg-protectors or overalls to made of any strong woven or spun material, be worn by cotton-pickers, gardeners, plumbor leather, and may be either waterproof or 65 15 ers, miners, quarrymen, and others, the said not, as desired. The said reinforcement is protectors having a pad or reinforcement on attached to the leg portion A, so as to be dethe knees thereof, such as will afford a suflitachable therefrom, by means of ordinary cient protection against injury by stones or buttons c, secured to the said leg portion, other hard substances or irregularities on the which engage in buttonholes c0 in the said 7o v2o surface of the ground or other place upon reinforcement, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or which the wearer is obliged to kneel. socket-buttons, such as shown at @2in Fig. 3,

My invention also contemplates the use of may be used, if preferred. detachable reinforcements and pads, which The pad D is secured to the outer face of enable the same to be removed for any purthe reinforcement C by means of stitches, riv- 75 25 pose and replaced when worn, out or so de ets, nails, or may be cemented thereto, or

sired for any reason. v may be made detachable in any suitable manv My invention will be understood by referner,if desired. This pad D may consist, as ence to the accompanying drawings, wherein shown in Fig. 4, of a heavy hollow casing CZ, the same parts are indicated by the same letof leather, cloth, canvas, rubber cloth, or 8o 3o ters throughout the severalviews. metal having an inner stufng d, of hair, Figure 1 represents a front perspective straw, or like material, and secured at its view showing a pair of my' improved knee edges to the reinforcement C by means of rivprotectors as being worn by a man. Fig. 2 ets d2; or, if preferred, however, this casing represents an enlarged front elevation of a may be stitched to the reinforcement or made 85 3 5 portion `of the leg-protectors, showing the detachable by use of buttons or their equivaknee-pad as secured to the front thereof, so lent, as desired. as to be detachable therefrom by Vmeans of Fig. 5 shows a pad having a thick outer ordinary buttons. Fig. 3 is'aview similar tn casing cl3, composed of a block of wood or that shown in Fig. 2, showing the pad as metal, having a convex outer face anda con- 9o, 4o attached to the leg-protectors by means of cave inner face do, stuffed with hair or other socket-buttons. Fig. 4 represents a sectional suitable substance d4 and secured to the front view showinga pad composed of hair or other ofthe reinforcement C by means of nails or similar substance iuclosed in a stout leather screws d, as shown. y or canvas casing; and Fig. 5 is aviewsimilar I do not wish to limit myself to the precise. 95 ,45 to that shown inFig. 1-, showinga knee-pad, form of pad shown and described herein, nor the outer portion of which-is composed of a do I wish to limit myself to the use of hair or solid block of wood or iron hollo'wed out on straw as a padding therefor, as it will be obthe inner side and padded with hair or like vious that a pneumatic cushion may be used,- material and secured by nails or screws upon if preferred, without altering materially the roo 5o the front of the detachable reinforcement. form or construction of the pad.

A represents the body of the leg-protector, IIaving thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcnt of the United States, is

l. In a leg-protector, the combination with the leg portion A, having an extension at the top thereof reaching to the Waist of the wearer, anda belt passingr through the said extension and supporting,r the said leg portion, and a plurality of buttons secured upon the outside of the front of the said leg portion; ot' a ieXible reinforcement provided with a plurality of holes adapted to en gage the said buttons; a concavo-convex casing secured to the said flexible reinforcement, and a padding.,r filling the concavity of said casing substantially as described.

2. In aleg-protector, the combination with the leg portion A, having, an extension at the top thereof reaching to the waist of the wearer, and a belt passing through the said extension and supporting the said leg portion, and a plurality of buttons secured upon the outside of the front of the said leg: portion; of a flexible reinforcement provided with a plurality of holes adapted to engage the said buttons; a coneavo-convex block, of unyielding material, secured to the said fiexible reinforcement, and a padding in the concave portion of the said block, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of tivo Witnesses.

ALFRED IIERBELIN. YVitnesses:

W. S. RADNEY, W. B. CARRINGTON. 

